Artist Catherine Opie discusses identity and how it is perceived and shaped through portraits of close friends in the Los Angeles lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and transvestite community.
Category: Photography
The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize rewards a cash prize of £30,000 to a living photographer. Zoe Leonard (b.1961, USA) is among the nominees this year. She is nominated for her retrospective exhibition ‘Zoe Leonard – Photographs’, at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2009.
Tejal Shah (b. 1979) is an Indian visual artist working with video, photography and installation.Tejal is going to Sweden for the opening of the ‘Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive’ in Umea and she will be presenting her art works at the seminar ‘Queer in Theory and Pratctice’ at Bildmuseet, Umea University, Sweden, Saturday January 30, 2010.
Film Premiere of Stefanies Schneiders new film & Concert with Daisy McCrackin December 10, 2009 in Berlin, And on December 11, 2009 Stefanie Schneider’s 29 PALMS, CA a feature film/ art piece opens in ARTBAR 71 in Berlin.
‘Corpus Queer’ comes to Birmingham, UK, November 2009. The show spans over twenty five years of photographic exploration by Del LaGrace Volcano, a gender variant visual artist.
‘Fit und Schick’, photography exhibition by Veronika Boba Daňhelová and Karla Judytha Hostašováand Karla Judytha Hostašová. The exhibition is a part of the off-programme of the Czech queer film festival, Meziptra, in Brno. ‘Fit und Schick’ can be seen until November 11, 2009, at Marcus Gallery, Úvoz 24, Brno.
LANDSCAPES & ICONS. September 25 – November 30, 2009 at Galerie Thierry Librati, 30, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris, France. Opening reception 17:00 – 23:00 September 24, 2009.
Were Queen Kristina (1626 – 1689), King Karl XII (1697 – 1718) and King Gustav III (1746 – 1792) of Sweden as straight as the history books tell us? The sexual preferences of these regents have been discussed for hundreds of years, – lately by quite a lot of gay people. The regent is…
Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty is the first guest speaker talk of the seminar of ‘Fotografiens Dag’ in Horten, Norway. She will be talking about ‘Gay Kids’.
Photographer Verena Jaekel’s latest art project ‘New Family Portraits – Neue Familienportraits’ consists of a series of portraits that investigates the issue of current new family constellations.
Swiss artist Caroline Juillard is based in Geneva. She studied photography at Ecole de photographie de Vevey.
Opening reception of the exhibition was on Wedensday, July 29, 2009, 17.00, at DASK Gallery, Copenhagen.
Ana Dumitrescu is Franco-Romanian photographer. She works mostly with documentary photography and has made assignments for National Geographic, Playboy, Gamma Agency, Mediafax Agency, but for the last couple of years she has also worked together Accept, the only association in Romania that advocates for human rights and gay rights, and…
Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty was born in England, has studied at Eastbourne College of Art and design in Sussex and is now working at The Museum of Cultural History at The University of Oslo.
I mentioned Annie Leibovitz’s exhibition A Photographer’s Life 1990 – 2005 when it opened in London. After being in London and Paris the show is now in Berlin, Germany.
Text: Liz Ashburn, Sydney, Australia
Sorry the slideshow has expired! Slideshow with Hannah Höch’s works of art Hannah Höch (1889 – 1978) was a German Dada artist. She studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Charlottenburg and at School of the Royal Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin. In 1919 she became a member of the Dada movement. Hannah is best…
Anastasia Kuba is a San Francisco based photographer originally from Russia. She moved to United States on her own at the age of 20 in 2003. Partially because Anastasia felt lost in cultural and language differences, she turned to visual art as a universal way of self expression and communication….
Imogene Cunningham and an anonymous model.